ASFA BBQ September 2018 Rhythms / Ρυθμοί

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Rhythms / ΡυθμοίThe possibility of setting up an "intention" that gives back the originary depends on new strides that mobilize the faculties of the soul and inspire other rhythms in them—not only memory, but also perception, imagination, understanding. What new aberration will arise from this?” Gilles Deleuze

​ The 4rd edition of the Athens School of Fine Arts Performance Festival, ASFA BBQ, is investigate the dialectic of transitive and immanent time, the time of the self and the time of the world with a specific emphasis on the social framing of this dialectic in the current technological paradigm. Performance, poetry and theory are chosen along with critical analysis in an attempt to open the spaces for a more harmonious lived experience of time. The combination of these methods can lead to an account of the rhythms of contemporary automated circulation and their repercussions in the process of subjectivation as they can contribute towards the possibility of emancipation. Rhythmanalysis, a practice that promises to deliver subjective existence from temporal disorientation and ill-made durations, offers a viable resolution of the tension between immanent and transitive time. The aim would be a more cheerful, more serene and poetic existence, which can tune in to the temporal diversity of social life. The task is double; to analyze the different rhythms that inform and punctuate subjective existence at the same time as to offer concrete methods for the temporal realignment of the subject according to more humane and more harmonious rhythm of existence.

The festival invites artists and theorist to experiment with different rhythms and engage with the following questions:· What is the most appropriate definition of time for the study of process of subjectivation?· Can a description of time based on rhythm account for the feeling of duration that characterizes the lived experience of time?· What is the relation between social value and time and what is the role of money in quantifying this relation?· How do new media technologies and especially the ones that are developed in the field of finance contribute to the acceleration of everyday life?· How can socials rationalize is process?· What is Rhythmanalysis and how can it be supported by literature and performance?· How does Rhythmanalysis relate to artistic research?

If you would like to participate please send us a short description, a BIO and an image at asfabarbecue@gmail.com We regret that we do not have the budget to support the production or the travel expenses of participating artist and theorists.

​ Georgios Papadopoulos

The images are from a performance/ intervention by Αnosia (Eva Koliopantou/ Stefanos Chandelis) and Thoryvos during the ASFA BBQ 2017. Photo by Haris Hlorou.